Luke 6:35 (WEB)
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Fathers and councils · 18
Justin Martyr
“For He taught us to pray for our enemies also, saying, ‘Love your enemies; be kind and merciful, as your heavenly Father is.’” — editor's note: Luke vi. 35.
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John Chrysostom
“And elsewhere He even amplifies it, saying that we should give to them, from whom we do not expect to receive.” — editor's note: Luke vi. 35. “Do good and lend, hoping for nothing again.” [But the R.V. renders “never despairing,” with the margin, “Some ancient authorities read despairing…
Read the whole comment“And whereas God commands not even to receive what is given (for “give,” saith He, “to them from whom ye look not to receive”),thou requirest even more than is given, and what thou gavest not, this as a debt, thou constrainest the receiver to pay.” — editor's note: Luke vi. 35. [Cited very freely.]
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Tertullian
“No doubt the Lord is “kind” to “the unthankful,” rather than to the ignorant! and “merciful” to the “reprobates” sooner than to such as have yet had no probation! so that insults offered to His clemency do…” — editor's note: Comp. Luke vi. 35.
Read the whole comment““And ye shall be the children of God.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 35. In the original the phrase is, υἱοὶ τοῦ ύψίστου.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Now, that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus is good, the Word Himself will again avouch: “For He is kind to the unthankful and the evil;” and further, when He says, “Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 35, 36.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he asserts, is that which has been written: “I said, Ye are gods, and all children of the highest;” “If ye hasten to fly out of Egypt, and repair beyond the Red Sea into the wilderness,” that is, from earthly intercourse to the Jerusalem above, which is the…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxii. 6; Luke vi. 35; John x. 34.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord had said that we must love our enemies, but that you might not think this an exaggerated expression, regarding it solely as spoken to alarm them, he adds the reason, saying, For if you love them which love…
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But he not only condemns as unprofitable the love and kindness of sinners, but also the lending. As it follows, And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Now philosophy seems to divide justice into three parts; one towards God, which is called piety; another towards our parents, or the rest of mankind; a third to the dead, that the proper rites may be performed. But…
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Whereby thou wilt confer more upon thyself than him. For he is beloved by a fellow servant, but thou art made like unto God. But it is a mark of the greatest virtue when we embrace with kindness those who wish to do…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
But man ought to shun that baneful anxiety with which he seeks from the poor man increase of his money and gold, exacting a profit of barren metals. Hence he adds, And lend, hoping for nothing again, &c. If a man…
Read the whole comment - Basil the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Now this mode of avarice is rightly called in the Greek τόκος, from producing, because of the fruitfulness of the evil. Animals in course of time grow up and produce, but interest as soon as it is born begins to…
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Observe the wonderful nature of lending, one receives and another binds himself for his debts, giving a hundred fold at the present time, and in the future eternal life.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
How great the reward of mercy which is received into the privilege of divine adoption! For it follows, And ye shall be the sons of the Highest (Ps. 82:6.). Follow then mercy, that ye may obtain grace. Widely spread…
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Either by giving them temporal gifts, or by inspiring His heavenly gifts with a wonderful grace.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Great then is the praise of mercy. For this virtue makes us like unto God, and imprints upon our souls certain signs as it were of a heavenly nature. Hence it follows, Be ye then merciful, as your heavenly Father…
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That is to say, that we beholding His mercies, what good things we do should do them not with regard to men, but to Him, that we may obtain our rewards from God, not from men.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 10.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 6:32–36 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 6:32–36 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 96.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 6:32–36 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 10.